Patents Examined by Hanh N. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11979884
    Abstract: In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may be a user equipment (UE). The apparatus may receive, from a base station via a DCI message, an indication of at least one K1 value corresponding to a plurality of physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmissions over a plurality of PDSCH resources. The DCI message may comprise scheduling information for the plurality of PDSCH transmissions. The at least one K1 value may be associated with at least one physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource and indicative of a PDSCH-to-hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) timing. The apparatus may transmit, to the base station via the at least one PUCCH resource, at least one acknowledgment/negative-acknowledgment (ACK/NACK) indication associated with the at least one K1 value and corresponding to the plurality of PDSCH resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Qingjiang Tian, Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang, Zhifei Fan, Tao Luo, Wooseok Nam, Ahmed Abdelaziz Ibrahim Abdelaziz Zewail, Anantha Krishna Karthik Nagarajan, Jun Ma
  • Patent number: 11979876
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method by which a terminal transmits a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) to a base station in a wireless communication system. The terminal can receive, from the base station, configuration information for allocating a resource for transmitting a transport block (TB) through the PUSCH, and map the TB to a plurality of slots constituting the resource on the basis of the configuration information. Thereafter, the terminal can transmit the TB on the plurality of slots through the PUSCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: WILUS INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Geunyoung Seok, Kyungjun Choi, Minseok Noh, Juhyung Son, Jinsam Kwak
  • Patent number: 11974289
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for separately configuring sets of frequency resources for a PDCCH and another physical channel are disclosed. According to the method, the first and second messages are configured separately to respectively indicate the sets of frequency resources with associated numerologies for the PDCCH and other physical channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIOSN CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Jia Shen, Hua Xu
  • Patent number: 11963074
    Abstract: Systems and methods for maintaining and dynamically updating inactivity timers at a user equipment to detect a one-way audio or mute call to improve call experience are disclosed. The method enables the user equipment to perform a set of actions (e.g., enable, disable, drop call, don't drop call, etc.) when a one-way audio or mute call is detected. Values for the timer and/or action parameters can be dynamically determined and/or communicated to the user equipment by a telecommunications service provider based on one or more of the following factors: network health, network congestion, current events, type of call (e.g., emergency, non-emergency), type of customer (e.g., business, premium, residential, etc.), service-level agreement, and so on. Values for the timer and/or action parameters can be configurable based on a location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Hsin-Fu Henry Chiang, Muhammad Tawhidur Rahman
  • Patent number: 11943045
    Abstract: A distributed radio frequency communication system facilitates communication between wireless terminals and a core network. The system includes a group of remote radio units (RRUs). Each RRU of the group of RRUs is coupled to an antenna to communicate with at least some of the mobile terminals and includes electronic circuitry to perform at least a first portion of a first-level protocol of a radio access network (RAN) and communicate over a fronthaul link. The system also includes a baseband unit (BBU) coupled to the core network and the fronthaul link, and communicably coupled to the group of RRUs over the fronthaul link. The BBU includes electronic circuitry to assign one or more RRUs, selected from the group of RRUs, to a cluster of RRUs based on one or more parameters, and to perform at least a second-level protocol of the RAN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Alan Barbieri, Dario Fertonani
  • Patent number: 11909679
    Abstract: A terminal according to one embodiment of the present disclosure can encode a plurality of UCIs comprising a first UCI and a second UCI which have different priorities, perform resource mapping on the encoded bits of the plurality of UCIs on a single physical uplink channel, and perform uplink transmission on the basis of the resource mapping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Suckchel Yang, Seonwook Kim, Duckhyun Bae
  • Patent number: 11903014
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods are provided for transmission prioritization between uplink and sidelink. In one novel aspect, transmission prioritization is performed between uplink data transmission and sidelink physical channel/signal transmissions, including feedback channel (PSFCH). In one embodiment, PSFCH transmission is prioritized over the UL transmission when the highest logic channel priority value of the UL transmission with available data is larger than a configured UL priority threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Inventors: Xuelong Wang, Tao Chen, Zhixun Tang
  • Patent number: 11903053
    Abstract: A method for secure call endpoint pairing is disclosed. The method includes starting, at a call endpoint, a pairing procedure with a wireless headset. Also, the method includes receiving a headset identifier from the wireless headset. Further, the method includes sending the headset identifier in a request to a headset registry server, and receiving, from the headset registry server, a response to the request. Additionally, the method includes terminating the pairing procedure based on the response from the headset registry server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Shantanu Sarkar
  • Patent number: 11902974
    Abstract: A terminal according to one embodiment of the present invention may: receive first DCI including a first HARQ process ID field and a first NDI field on the basis of a first RNTI for a terminal group; receive a first PDSCH scheduled by the first DCI; receive second DCI on the basis of a second RNTI dedicated to the terminal in a state in which a data block of the first PDSCH has not been successfully decoded; and receive a second PDSCH scheduled by the second DCI, wherein a second HARQ process ID field included in the second DCI indicates the same HARQ process as the first HARQ process ID field included in the first DCI; and, on the basis of the fact that a value of a second NDI field included in the second DCI is the same as the value of the first NDI field included in the first DCI, a data block of the second PDSCH may be decoded on the assumption that the second PDSCH includes retransmission for the data block of the first PDSCH that has not been successfully decoded, notwithstanding that the second RNTI is
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Youngdae Lee, Suckchel Yang, Joonkui Ahn
  • Patent number: 11895658
    Abstract: A method of transmitting a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) in a wireless communication system and a device therefor are disclosed. Specifically, the method performed by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving, from a base station (BS), configuration information for performing transmission and reception on a per subslot basis, receiving, from the BS, multiple physical downlink shared channels (PDSCHs) based on the configuration information, and transmitting, to the BS, the PUCCH including hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ)-acknowledgement (ACK) information for the multiple PDSCHs in a specific slot. The PUCCH includes a first PUCCH transmitted in a first subslot of the specific slot and a second PUCCH transmitted in a second subslot of the specific slot. The first PUCCH and the second PUCCH each are transmitted based on a separately constructed HARQ-ACK codebook.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hyunho Lee, Hanjun Park, Duckhyun Bae, Yunjung Yi
  • Patent number: 11895657
    Abstract: A user terminal according to the present invention includes: a transmitting section that transmits Uplink Control Information (UCI) including at least one of retransmission control information for a downlink data channel, a Scheduling Request (SR) and Channel State Information (CSI); and a control section that controls the transmission of the UCI when a first uplink control channel and a second uplink control channel having a longer duration than that of the first uplink control channel are subjected to time division multiplexing in one or more slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata, Lihui Wang, Xiaolin Hou
  • Patent number: 11876591
    Abstract: A reception apparatus includes reception circuitry and decoding circuitry. The reception receives a signal including a legacy header field, an enhanced directional multi-gigabit (EDMG) header field, and a data field. The decoding circuitry decodes data included in the data field of the received signal. The legacy header field includes a Length field comprising multiple bits. The reception apparatus is an EDMG terminal, and a subset of the multiple bits of the Length field included in the legacy header field is used to indicate bandwidth over which the signal is transmitted. Remaining bits of the Length field included in the legacy header field are used to indicate data length of the received signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Motozuka, Naganori Shirakata, Masataka Irie, Takenori Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 11863315
    Abstract: Some techniques and apparatuses described herein may be used to avoid or reduce collisions between uplink data communications and uplink control communications for an enhanced machine-type communication user equipment (eMTC UE) operating in an unlicensed radio frequency spectrum band. Furthermore, some techniques and apparatuses may avoid such collision while still allowing efficient use of resources, such as by deferring the uplink data communication within a data segment, rate matching an uplink data communication around uplink control resources (e.g., cell-specific uplink control resources and/or UE-specific uplink control resources), puncturing the uplink data communication to avoid the uplink control resources, multiplexing uplink control information on an uplink data channel, and/or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Chih-Hao Liu, Srinivas Yerramalli, Tamer Kadous
  • Patent number: 11864187
    Abstract: A resource allocation method and an apparatus to reduce mutual interference between neighboring cells. The method includes: determining, by a first terminal device based on a physical cell identity PCID of a first cell accessed by the first terminal device and a preset rule, a subcarrier group corresponding to the first terminal device, where the subcarrier group corresponding to the first terminal device includes some subcarriers in a subcarrier set corresponding to the first terminal device. A communications system supports sub-PRB resource allocation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yue Zhao, Zheng Yu, Yongqiang Fei, Fang Nan, Xingqing Cheng
  • Patent number: 11848782
    Abstract: A method for transmitting feedback information, a terminal device, and a network device are provided, which can meet feedback requirements of different downlink data without causing waste of resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Inventors: Yanan Lin, Jia Shen
  • Patent number: 11849449
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus receives a higher layer parameter and a PDSCH, and generates a HARQ-ACK codebook and transmits the generated HARQ-ACK codebook on a PUCCH. In a case that a first parameter is configured, a first HARQ-ACK codebook and a second HARQ-ACK codebook are generated, the first HARQ-ACK codebook is used to transmit a HARQ-ACK bit corresponding to a PDSCH A, and the second HARQ-ACK codebook is used to transmit a HARQ-ACK bit corresponding to a PDSCH B. In a case that the first parameter is not configured, the first HARQ-ACK codebook is generated, and the first HARQ-ACK codebook is used to transmit the HARQ-ACK bit corresponding to the PDSCH B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Liqing Liu, Shohei Yamada, Masayuki Hoshino, Hiroki Takahashi, Hidekazu Tsuboi
  • Patent number: 11844075
    Abstract: A method performed by a terminal in a wireless communication system includes: receiving at least one downlink control information (DCI) from a base station; determining a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource based on the at least one DCI; and transmitting a PUCCH including hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) information to the base station based on the determined PUCCH resource, wherein the determining of the PUCCH resource comprises: in case that a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH)-to-HARQ feedback timing indicator field is present in the at least one DCI, determining the PUCCH resource based on information in the PDSCH-to-HARQ feedback timing indicator field in the at least one DCI; and in case that the PDSCH-to-HARQ feedback timing indicator field is not present in the at least one DCI, determining the PUCCH resource based on an radio resource control (RRC) signaling received from the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Suha Yoon, Jeongho Yeo, Jonghyun Bang, Jinyoung Oh
  • Patent number: 11838928
    Abstract: An access node may monitor for uplink and downlink resource release indications signaled by a parent access node and a child access node prior to scheduling a released resource. In some cases (e.g., when the child node is capable of half-duplex communications), the parent access node may determine to release a resource, and the child access node may determine to release a hard resource (e.g., a child node controlled resource). Receiving uplink and downlink resource release indications may enable the access node to schedule communication with the child node via a soft resource (e.g., a parent node controlled resource). Other aspects of the described techniques are directed to feedback support for a slot format indicator (SFI). The feedback from the access node may accept or reject the SFI based on an impact the SFI has on scheduling via a child link established with a child node of the access node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jianghong Luo, Navid Abedini, Muhammad Nazmul Islam, Luca Blessent, Tao Luo, Junyi Li, Karl Georg Hampel
  • Patent number: 11831438
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a communication scheme and system for converging a 5th generation (5G) communication system for supporting a data rate higher than that of a 4th generation (4G) system with an internet of things (IoT) technology. The disclosure is applicable to intelligent services (e.g., smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, health care, digital education, retail, and security and safety-related services) based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology. An operation method of a terminal for receiving data from multiple Transmission and Reception Points (TRPs) participated in non-coherent joint transmission is disclosed. The method includes receiving information on HARQ-ACK codebook configuration and configuring and transmitting HARQ-ACK codebooks corresponding to the multiple TRPs based on the received information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Inventors: Hoondong Noh, Euichang Jung, Jinhyun Park, Heecheol Yang
  • Patent number: 11812433
    Abstract: A terminal is disclosed including a processor that maps an encoded bit sequence of an uplink control information firstly in a layer direction of a resource of an uplink shared channel, secondly in a frequency direction of the resource, and thirdly in a time direction of the resource; and a transmitter that transmits the uplink control information in the resource. In other aspects, a radio communication method for a terminal and a base station are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata, Lihui Wang, Xiaolin Hou